The Young Lions
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The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Young Lions:

Marlon Brando
Montgomery Clift
Dean Martin
Hope Lange
Barbara Rush
May Britt

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The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzAll three stars shine and give this film a luster despite periodic breakdowns in the way the episodic story was told.
Creative Loafing - 8/10 by Matt BrunsonWhat's most impressive about Dean Martin's turn is that while his co-stars are Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, the era's most celebrated Method performers and among the cream of the Hollywood crop, he easily holds his own against this esteemed pair.
Cinema em Cena - 7/10 by Pablo VillaçaBelíssimo filme sobre a segunda guerra, mostrando ponto de vistas de soldados de ambos os lados do front. Brando, obviamente, assume o papel de alemão - e sua humanidade faz contraponto aos horrores que testemunha.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyDespite major departures from Irwin Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's film is an enjoyable, well executed WWII melodrama with top-notch turns from Marlon Brando as the sympathetic Nazi officer and Montgomery Clift as the shy Jewish-American soldier.
User Review - 10/10 by Herbert Hillary BFrank SInatra was great, but cannot say the same for Marlon Brando who could have done better, Lee Van Cleef was outstanding as usual!
User Review - 10/10 by Mike TFor the most part, this methodically constructed anti-war film manages to stray away from sappiness, maintaining a feeling of genuine sentiments throughout. It's a very well-made, intriguing film with standout performances from Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.
User Review - 10/10 by Andre TDirected by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. The Young Lions is about the destiny of three young soldiers involved in WWII. The German officer, Lt. Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando), approves less and less of the war, while the American-Jewish GI, Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift), tries to survive the very bigoted military and Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), who starts out as a coward who tries to avoid the war, becomes more and more blood-thirsty as the war progresses. Christian is caught in the middle of this war because he fancies two women who are American and French. He does his duty in the German Army but realizes at the end that the war, and just about everything else except his French girlfriend, is lost. Ackerman is befriended by a fellow draftee, the reluctant soldier Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), and falls in love with a New England woman named Hope (Hope Lange) whose father is anti-Jewish.Filmed in majestic black & white, this movie is a festival of great and genious performances by Brando and Clift.Classic.
User Review - 10/10 by Nicolas AAlways have I liked war movies, so this one with Marlon Brando and Montgommery Clift in the leading roles I definitly had to see. To be honest i had low expectations of this movie, don't know why exactly but I must say that its a hell of a movie. Marlon Brando's german accent wasnt really the best accent i have ever heard at all but his performance was magnificant. Dean Martin is the perfect cast to play the flamboyant Michael Whiteacre and I was also very pleased with Montgommery Clift his performance, which was probaly the best of the 3 leading actors. Also nice to see Lee Van Cleef as the typical bad guy (he's maybe not the bad guy but he isnt the nicest one either, you'll understand when you watch the movie). Edward Dmytryk did exellent on directing and focusing on the characters who are perfectly written by novelist Irwin Shaw.
User Review - 10/10 by Adrian BA clever twist in the retro-active mindness of most war movies. It is not a good american vs. bad nazi movie, nor an arbitrary "change of hearts" (Good nazi vs. bad american). It is a movie about humans in a war context.
User Review - 10/10 by Anna MThe Young Lions is based on the novel by Irwan Shaw and stars Marlon Brando as a very convincing German Officer. I refuse to use the word Nazi because the film concentrates on the personal, emotional, financial well being of the German people pre and post WW2. Directed by Edward Dymytyk deliberately in black and white at a time when cinema goers expected glorious techicolour, convincingly transports the viewer into war time. The film places pertinent questions in our own minds about our own racial and political beliefs and challenges our own society, culture and traditions. It highlights old conflicts, wars, mistrust and patriotic pride which can leand to disasterous nationalism. The character of Brando, his Germanic background, his passions and aspirations are compared to Dean Martin and the sad, serious tragic charcter of Montgomery Clift. Clift the long suffering ordinary American Jew highlights the bigotry and racial intolerance of America of that time and exposes the hyprocracy and similiarity between the Naziz and the country of liberty and freedom. Until Martin the good all round American guy (White Anglo Saxon and Protestant, no doubt) uses his theatrical connections to inform on the racist phyisical bullying Clift endures. We are reminded of the "clout" Hollywood held at that period in history, The Thalbergs and Goldmeyers could and would influence the Whitehouse. The film steared away from the civil rights movement and failed to show black regiments and white regiments. Incidentally Clift was accepted by the good puritan Christian girl and her middle class father because he was a good man. Just like the rest of us. A little flat at times in America but passions, feelings and emotions displayed in the raw through the German characters. It is fair to say the American characters seemed unreal and glamourised, in sterotypical form. The woman ballsy and indepedent, intellectual, well adjusted thinkers and good lookers, equal to their male counter parts. Down to cigarette smokes and American uniforms doing their bit for America. The German women protrayed as objects of lust, to be used for the good of the German high ranking officers at the permission of ambitious husbands. It was implied that the American girls also had influence but in a morally guiding manner. The bubble is burst at the end of the film and the great ideals are split open for the good German officer Brando as he realises the Reich was nothing but a vision. Excellent movie with a wonderful music score. Watch and enjoy Clift and Brando at their best." -

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